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  1. Got Rocket's x-rays today. In case y'all ever wondered what severe bilateral hip dysplasia in canines looks like, here you go. The top one is normal for comparison. You can see in the bottom left how there is no joint at all - the femur is "floating" and the hip socket is almost flat. It's slightly more concave on the right but still relatively flat. The heads of both femurs are also deformed, although that's harder to tell if you don't usually look at x-rays of dog femurs.

    The good news is that he really doesn't seem like he knows anything is wrong. Still just being a giant puppy.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Yea, I think that scorched tank gives you an idea how close they were to a much worse disaster and probably explains the mandatory evacs. 

    Also, two mutual friends with your dad's friend. Both high school classmates from TJ. 

    Good old small world of southeast TX. 

    1 hour ago, futureman said:

    have seen this stated many times in this thread.  how big of a boom are we talking.  fertilizer plant in west sized boom?  bigger boom?

    I'm 38 and I don't ever remember an evacuation like this one due to plant explosion concerns. I think there was also concern of a possible chain reaction happening, because there are so many plants so close to each other.

  3. 3 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

    I would thumb thru the Sun. But if articles don't come up for you in search there's a chance they took them down until the lawsuit with MM is settled. The real issue here is this is a soap opera created by the editors of these tabloids some with personal vendettas against the Royals. Some Brits just hate all royals but most don't give a shit other than entertainment. By reporting these tensions and embarrassing episodes it creates clicks. So MM is acting like a polite American, but at 'brat' in terms of Aristocracy. They pump it up, over blow it and poke her until she does something they can pounce on. 

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/9525600/meghan-markle-needs-stop-whining-about-royal-life/

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/9123107/meghan-markle-is-not-popular-in-lots-of-posh-social-circles-because-she-thinks-shes-running-the-show-claims-royal-author/

     

    Look, I'm sure she's acted snotty to someone at some point but using the Sun as your source of evidence for proving someone's character is ridiculous. Of course every tabloid out there is going to make drama. "Harry's wife is amazing!" is not a headline that sells.

    Besides all this, most of y'all are acting like this whole thing was Meghan's idea when even a cursory glance through the tubes shows that Harry has never been completely on board with living the life of a royal. He didn't ask for it, and for everyone's comments about how she needs to deal because she knew what she was getting into, Harry didn't. The heir and the spare, and all that. Being with an American gives him a perfect excuse to back out of some of the limelight.

    I don't know, I just can't get up in arms about someone wanting to do their own thing and leave the family business. And to that point, to those saying you can't be a duke part-time, it would be SO MUCH WORSE if they actually gave up their titles. Ever since Diana, the British monarchy has been slowly moving away from tradition. This whole thing looks to me like another example of that.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Doc Reeves said:

     

    That? Well, that specifically doesn't. 

    Her being a horrible person to everyone who she sees as lower than her makes her that.

     

    Seriously, where are you seeing what a horrible person she is everyone she sees as beneath her?

  5. 15 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

    This is the price of being a Monarch, which is a archaic and sexist principal in it of itself. Quite frankly if she wasn't up for the job she shouldn't have applied. 

    But this is the game, she is truly meaningless in all of this. This is the Prince taking someone he knows will piss off his parents whom he will never be able to please. Shes just a pawn and is being treated as such.

    How does any of this make her an insufferable cunt?

  6. 31 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

    Also, Megan is a completely insufferable cunt who hasn't earned and doesn't deserve her wealth while looking down her nose at peple despite having almost no actual accomplishments to her name. 

     

    She should be absolutely perfect for America 

    Jesus. I know we joke about celebrities, but an "insufferable cunt who hasn't earned and doesn't deserve her wealth"? Why do you think this? I mean, she's no Oscar winner but she's worth about $5M on her own from various acting gigs. She was raised by a single mom and has a degree from Northwestern. She's spoken out for years (much longer than she's been with Harry and well before she was famous) about gender equality and women's rights - look at this article about how she was profiled on a kids' news channel as a child. 

    Along with their standard vitriolic treatment of celebrities they don't like, the British tabloid press has been unabashedly racist in much of their coverage of her. Look at this Daily Mail article as one example, from when they had just started dating. I mean, this is just the headline:

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    EXCLUSIVE: Harry's girl is (almost) straight outta Compton: Gang-scarred home of her mother revealed - so will he be dropping by for tea?

    Just looking at this thread there's a lot of evidence why their decision to step back and spend half their time in North America isn't just to be celebrities here. Her mom lives here and they have a baby who, I'm guessing, they don't want raised where all he's going to hear is how his mom is a money-grubbing whore who only cares about wealth and fame. 

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  7. On 1/7/2020 at 5:21 PM, Deej said:

    Keep her low key well after it heals and she gets the strength back in that leg. A lot of times they'll blow out the other side. Ask me how I know.

     

    On 1/6/2020 at 9:45 PM, wild_turkey said:

    Meanwhile, our golden retriever, Nora, had a complete tear of her cranial cruciate ligament on her back right leg in early December. She could no longer put any weight on the leg and she had surgery on Dec 23. She is healing okay but it’s way too early to know if the surgery was successful and the total recovery time is 3+ months. That means she has to be locked in a bathroom 90% of the time and kept on a leash at all times, including going to the bathroom. Not the most fun experience for her or us, but hopefully it pays off in a few months.

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    I hope she feels better soon. I will be hitting y'all up for long-term surgical recovery tips here shortly.

  8. 8 hours ago, baboso said:

    That chick must have God pussy.

     

    8 hours ago, Dutch said:

     

    Her: "Honey, I want you to give up your royal family and your princely life so we can move to LA so I can run a fashion line and be the Kardashians without the sex tapes* and maybe make a tv show every now and then."

    Him: "Ok."

    #Undefeated. Even a prince can't defeat it.

    *that we know of

     

    7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    I agree on the hotness. I’m holding with he’s always wanted out and she’s the perfect escape 

    This may be the craziest thing I've ever posted but hear me out: Maybe her looks aren't the only thing he's interested in.

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  9. This sweet boy, Rocket, had x-rays today. The vet said he has "the worst case of hip dysplasia" she's ever seen. On one side, the ball of his femur is only barely in the hip socket, and on the other, the hip socket isn't formed like it should be. Or something along those lines. He just turned one at the end of November and this is about the age they usually diagnose it. We knew it was a possibility but I was not expecting it to be this bad.

    The better news is that he can live a pretty normal life if he has major hip surgery. We are consulting with a vet orthopedic surgeon next week to figure it out. And besides walking janky and being slow to stand up, he's acting normal. She said they get used to the pain since it's normal to them, which I guess is a good thing but is still sad. He does have pain meds now.

    Cross your fingers that our pet insurance helps with the cost. The policy doesn't specifically exclude hip dysplasia and doesn't have a waiting period, but I'm worried they'll find some loophole to get out of it. Either way we'll do surgery if that's what the doc recommends. I've spent money on much less worthy causes.413ddf60cd4cd05bf52a43fa323f9c91.jpg


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  10. My favorite part is how Buckingham Palace had no idea. I'm pretty sure "the Palace is understood to be disappointed" is the British way of saying "The Queen is going to put out a hit on Meghan and then shit on her grave."

    I don't follow the royals closely but even at a glance it's obvious that the British press has been brutal to her, and it's gotten even worse since this announcement. Who can blame them for wanting to back out of the limelight? And it's not like they are giving up their titles or anything. They're still going to do stuff for the queen; just not as much. Everyone across the pond needs to take it down a notch.

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  11. 48 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

     

     

    I know this is beside the point but I really hate that news outlets distribute stuff that's unconfirmed. Especially in situations like this. And I understand why they feel they have to (sometimes) but it just muddies everything up. Anyway. I'm going to go read the dog thread now and try not to think about all this.

  12. 3 hours ago, HOOKEM4 said:

    They have to be using different units of measurement, right? Whatever it is at today and yesterday, it is fucking killing me. One would think that after 37 years of living in the area, you would build up a tolerance but it just seems to be getting worse every year. 

     

    36 minutes ago, miguelito said:

    None of the counts ever have a unit/label.  I think the standard is grams (or grains) per cubic meter.  If this were a school project, the weather people would get points deducted for not showing the units. 

    Of course, one time I got in trouble for showing my unit, but that's a story for another time.

    KXAN may not always put the unit in their charts but they specify it in their writeups. This is from today.

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    Our allergy expert partners at Allergy & Asthma Center of Georgetown counted 27,639 grains per cubic meter of air Monday morning. That is among the highest counts in the Austin metro area since 32,000 grains were measured in the mid-1990s. The previous highest count so far this winter was close to 3,800 grains per cubic meter.

    Tuesday morning’s count shows another rare reading of 21,058 grains per cubic meter of air.

     

     

  13. 8 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Is that the thing where you literally suck the boogers out with your mouth? Cuz we have that thing. Far superior to bulb. He's on baby vicks train too. 

    I flew to Raleigh today for work and my God no pollen it's amazing. 

    Yep, that's the one. 

  14. On 1/5/2020 at 5:05 PM, immamac said:

    My new infant is getting fucked by pollen. Poor guy can't clear his own nose yet we are having to suck his boogers out once ever 2-3 hours. 

    Baby Vicks is good stuff. Also, check out the Nosefrida for clearing his nose. It's far better than the bulb suction thing.

    For adults, if y'all haven't used the Puffs tissues that have Vicks in them, definitely get some. They are a godsend.

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